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    The Habitat of Bats

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    Bats are flying mammals in the order Chiroptera (pronounced /kaɪˈrɒptərə/). The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings‚ making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast‚ other mammals said to fly‚ such as flying squirrels‚ gliding possums and colugos‚ glide rather than fly‚ and can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs‚ as birds do‚ but instead flap their spread out digits‚[2] which are very long and covered with

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    Environmental Science

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    Environmental Fundamentals Laura Jackson Env/100 April 8‚ 2013 JOHN ENSWORTH Environmental Fundamentals Introduction Environmental science is defined as the study of the environment and the interconnecting systems it contains‚ furthermore‚ the way people interact with their natural surroundings and use natural resources (wise geek‚ 2013). Scientist in this field is highly interdisciplinary and extremely diverse‚ for example‚ a scientist might study volcanoes or climate change. This essay

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    Pollination

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    Introduction The pollination involves the transfer of pollen from male part of a plant‚ called stamen to the female part of the plant‚ known as carpel. This enables fertilization and sexual reproduction to occur. Pollen grains are contained within the pollen while the carpel contains the female gamete. In gymnosperms the pollen is directly applied to the ovule. The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms while the receptive part of the gymnosperm ovule

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    My journal entry began when I started learning about the eras of geologic time like the Paleozoic‚ Mesozoic‚ and Cenozoic eras. Although the various time periods were all very interesting‚ I found the Paleozoic era to be the most fascinating.’Paleo’ means ancient or way early times in Greek and therefore Paleozoic means ancient life. This era was divided into six major parts. These parts are named the Cambrian‚ Ordovician‚ Silurian‚ Devonian‚ Carboniferous‚ and Permian periods. The Ordovician period

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    Biology Study Guide Which one of the following statements is false? Selected Answer: a. Factors that alter DNA and make cells cancerous are called carcinogens. Which one of the following is false? Selected Answer: b. DNA packing tends to promote gene expression. Silencers are sites in DNA that Selected Answer: c. bind repressor proteins to inhibit the start of transcription. Proteins that bind to DNA and turn on operons by making it easier

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    Jurassic Period It start to separate into 2 Land: Gondwanaland and Laurasia * Gondwanaland is the southern hemisphere while Laurasia is the Northern * It is said that the South America is connected to Africa. They have the same shape * Cretaceous Period is the end of moving of land masses. II. GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 2.1 Landforms * There are many mountains and mountain ranges in Phil. * The longest Mountain ranges in the phil. Is Sierra Madre. * The highest Mountain is

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    Honors Biology Final Exam Guide (Gray) So this is the practice test. I tried to make a relatively even number of questions from each section. I may have skipped something involuntarily so I would study your notes and whatever else as well. There is also a quizlet called Honors Biology final on my account so you can use that as well. I believe it has every term we have covered second semester. GOOD LUCK. Just think‚ no more BE SPECIFIC’s and Why?’s!!! 1. Before the time of Charles Darwin

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    of the skeleton. The small‚ plant-eating Thescelosaurus‚ nicknamed ‘Willo’ has been acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Thescelosaurus was an ornithischian‚ or "bird-hipped‚" dinosaur that lived in the latter stage of the Cretaceous period. This was approximately 1 million years before the end of the dinosaur era. Native to North America‚ its range extended from the northern United States up into Canada. Since using the 3-D software to reveal Willo ’s heart‚ scientists have

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    Periods in Geologic Time

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    Academia Interamericana de Panamá Science Speech Written Report *Geologic time* Aleks Ch. # 8 Date: 24/07/2013 Introduction The age of Earth is as vast in time as the universe is vast in space. It is not easy to really get a "feel" for 4‚600 million years! One way to try to get a "feel" for how big it is‚ is to break the number down into smaller pieces that perhaps we can understand. Plants and animals have changed many times‚ from amoebas to dinosaurs to people. The

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    in 1969 of George Sternberg‚ who had encircled it. The stream recorded focus was baccilar in 1991 when the lincoln’s exhibition was met with the Museum of the Adenoidal Plains. The presentation corridor is the national of the surely understood Cretaceous fossil Gillicus in Xiphactinus‚ enhance inconceivable as the "search for within a request‚" which shows a moment fossil search for part the tummy of a greater fossil

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